Climate change, smelting glaciers, lack of fresh water, polluted soil and energy consumption are major issues of our time. These phenomena are often considered to be related to industrial activities and their ecological ...

Epidemiological studies have shown a correlation between exposure to diesel exhaust aerosols and health problems. As diesel vehicles are widely used in traffic, and they are the most important contributor to the traffic ...

Finding ways to control electron transfer (ET) between molecules or molecular systems and to investigate efficient theoretical methods capable of describing ET is important for being able to design better molecular electronic ...

The business premises are ever more often seen as resources that, when utilized in a right way, support the functions and aims of both the organizations and the employees. In the business of renting premises this has ...

This work investigated the production of hydrogen and ethanol from carbohydrates by bacterial dark fermentation. Meso and thermophilic fermenters were enriched from the environment, and their H2 and/or ethanol production ...

Traffic is one of the most important sources of particulate pollution and its role is emphasized especially in roadside and urban environments. Because the fine particles of the ambient air have an impact on human health ...

Semiconductors are an essential part of the modern society. Transistors, solid- state lasers, solar cells, and several other semiconductor devices have shaped the world drastically. The most familiar material is perhaps ...

It is well-known that a small amount of nitrogen in InGaAs / GaAs quantum wells (QWs) causes a bandgap-bowing effect in the electronic band structure. While widening the spectral range of GaAs is a much desired consequence ...

Bayesian filtering is a framework for the computation of an optimal state estimate fusing different types of measurements, both current and past. Positioning, especially in urban and indoor environments, is one example of ...

Thin films of gold nanoparticles and photoactive organic molecules were prepared and studied with photoelectrical, spectroscopic and microscopic methods. Photoinduced electron transfer takes place from a poly(hexylthiophene) ...

A very important component of cells is the cell membrane separating the contents of a cell from the outside world. The cell membrane contains membrane proteins which, for example, regulate permeation of molecules through ...

In the 21st century the trend in healthcare is towards the early detection and prevention of disease and from hospitalization to increased personalization. The novel wearable and implantable systems for electrocardiographic ...

Local drug delivery devices are advantageous for use in pharmaceutical therapies to control tissue reaction at implant site. Tissue healing and regeneration is a multistep process, control of which is challenging. The ...

The quality of the paper produced can be characterised by numerous properties, such as roughness of the surface or dimensional stability under printing process, to mention but a few. Typically, the paper sheet properties ...

Electroencephalography (EEG) is a convenient technique for studying the function of the brain non-invasively from the surface of the scalp. The greatest advantages of EEG are its temporal resolution on a millisecond scale ...